Daylight Savings Time isn’t until next weekend
As archaic as it may seem, Daylight Savings Time still exists, but it isn’t this weekend.
Up until 2007, people in the United States would set their clocks back one hour, more commonly known by the colloquialism “fall back”, the weekend before Halloween. Well, that changed two years ago and we now change on the first Sunday in November, which this year will be Nov. 1. (In 2010 it won’t happen until Nov. 7th.)
Daylight Savings Time was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson, a New Zealand entomologist, who wanted to add more daylight to the end of the day for evening activities, and add more daylight to the morning hours during harvest times. Over the years there have been many debates over the merits of keeping the system, but there seems to be little organized movement to getting rid of the practice. While it does favor an agrarian economy, which very few placed on Earth still exist on, we continue to keep up the system.
Many studies have been conducted that show keeping the daylight hours in the afternoon make more sense for reductions in energy use, more safety on the roads due to cars having additional light and certain industries would benefit from more daylight through out the year, there seems to be little to no talk of changing the system on a permanent basis.
For the time being, just remember that the time now falls back on the first Sunday in November in the United States, and we spring forward on the second Sunday in March, which will be March 14, 2010 for next year.
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